On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 15:27 -0800, Sarah wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone happen to know if the eqn that ships with MacOS 10.5 is, > well, completely broken? Or am I doing something very basic wrong?
This has been reported here before ... see the thread "eqn troubles" on http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2008-09/threads.html Basically ... the Mac binaries are no good! > > 720$ cat eqn.in > .EQ > x=y+z > .EN > > 721$ eqn <eqn.in > .if !'\*(.T'ps' .if !'\*(.T'html' .tm warning: eqn should have been > given a `-T\*(.T' option > .if '\*(.T'html' .if !'ps'ps' .tm warning: eqn should have been given > a `-Tps' option > .if '\*(.T'html' .if !'ps'ps' .tm warning: (it is advisable to invoke > groff via: groff -Thtml -e) > .lf 1 /usr/share/groff/1.19.2/tmac/eqnrc > .\" Startup file for eqn. > .EQ > .nr 0C \n(.C > .cp 0 > .ds 10 > .cp \n(0C > .lf 63 > .EN > .lf 1 - > .EQ > .nr 0C \n(.C > .cp 0 > .ds 10 > eqn:<standard input>:2: syntax error > .cp \n(0C > .lf 3 > .EN > > context is > >>> x=y+z <<< > > 722$ eqn -v > GNU eqn (groff) version 1.19.2 > > The same file works ok on a Solaris box, and on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine > running groff 1.18.1. > > Is there a simple fix for this, other than installing and/or building > a separate copy of eqn? > > Thanks, > > Sarah > > > _______________________________________________ > bug-groff mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff _______________________________________________ bug-groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-groff
